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Resume work by 8 pm today or lose six months salary: Maharashtra govt ultimatum to doctors on strike

Maharashtra Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan has given ultimatum to striking doctors and asked them to return to work by Wednesday late evening.

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Maharashtra Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan has given ultimatum to striking doctors and asked them to return to work by Wednesday late evening.

Over 4,000 resident doctors in the government hospitals of the state have been staying away from work in protest against recent attacks by relatives of patients on their colleagues. The doctors are demanding better security for them at the hospitals.

Addressing to media, Mahajan said, "Six months salary of doctors on strike to be cut if they don't get back to work by 8 PM today."

Meanwhile, in Nagpur, Dean of Government Medical College has suspended 301 of its resident doctors, reported ANI.

As doctors continue to abstain from work across major civic hospitals in Mumbai, thousands of patients have been left to suffer and go through a lot of inconvenience at public hospitals as surgeries have been cancelled and patients are being turned away from Out Patient Departments (OPD).

On Tuesday, the Bombay High Court had pulled up the resident doctors of government hospitals in Maharashtra for abstaining from duty and observed that their conduct was "shameful".

"If you (doctors) do not want to work, then resign. You are not factory workers that you will resort to such protests. Shame on you. How can doctors behave in such a manner?" the Chief Justice asked.

The court has also directed Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis-led government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to provide adequate security to doctors in all hospitals all over Mumbai and Maharashtra.

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